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Climate Change Policy Brief: Protecting Vulnerable Populations

A public health policy brief examining how climate change harms vulnerable populations and proposing stronger UNFCCC policies, stakeholder roles, and healthcare impacts.

Health

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1,790 words

Climate change and greenhouse gases' effects on stratospheric ozone recovery

Waugh et al. (2009) investigated the effects that climate change has on he recovery period and rate of stratospheric ozone.

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Climate change impacts on vulnerable economies and food security

Global warming is mainly seen by the scientific community as a global process in which "glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace.

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Separating scientific fact from conjecture in climate change debate

The issue of climate change -- of human caused global warming, to be exact -- has been the subject of much debate among politicians and scientists alike.

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Climate change and infectious disease as preventable global disasters

The great American scientist Benjamin Franklin mentioned an old proverb - "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." Two current events affecting the world could learn from this wise adage.

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Climate change as a global security threat and policy challenge

Global Warming is a crisis that the whole world is going to have to deal with soon. In the United Nations climate change is being debated for the first time.

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Climate change impacts and policy responses in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is a large, mostly desert country in the Middle East, occupying much of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia is a middle income country if measured by per capita GDP, which is 55th in the world, just behind the Czech Republic.

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Climate change's impact on corn production in African regions

A researcher from Stanford University, David Lobell, entered into an accidental collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre in Mexico. The latter organization had been researching the potential for expanding corn production into parts of southern and eastern Africa.

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Economic impacts of climate change on developed and developing nations

In this paper, we will discuss the economic effects of global climate change on rich as well as poor countries. Our emphasis will be on the point that the rich countries might have a difficult time but they can manage with the situation whereas the poorer countries will be impacted the hardest.

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Climate change and rising food prices: an iterative relationship

We have all had the experience of going to the grocery store, picking up a box of cereal or a bunch of bananas, and finding ourselves surprised, or even shocked, at how much more it costs than it had just a week before.

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